A human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has described those who have been shouting their heads off over the recent appointments by President Muhammadu Buhari as jobless politicians that are interested only in what they can get from the system.
In a statement today, Keyamo stressed that majority of Nigerians are only interested in good governance and not the ethnic origin of a government appointee.
“The so-called ‘uproar’ over the perceived ‘lopsided’ appointments made so far by President Buhari is nothing but an orchestrated frustration of a few jobless politicians who depend only on government appointments as their means of livelihood and, of course, the noise of the latest opposition party in town.”
Keyamo said that the decade-long general division of government positions into ‘juicy’ and ‘non-juicy’ is worrisome, adding that the mentality that the ‘juicy’ positions must be shared equally among the major ethnic groups was a contraption of the old order.
“To my mind, all government appointments pose an equal challenge to those appointed as a call to higher service of fatherland,” Mr. Keyamo said.
“All public positions come with an equal responsibility to be honest, forthright and dedicated. To go further to classify them as ‘juicy’ or ‘non-juicy’ is just a euphemism for positions that have enough money from which to steal and those that ‘dry.’
“Therefore, any agitation from a section of the country to get ‘juicy’ positions is only an agitation for their kinsmen to be appointed to steal enough from which they would benefit.”
Keyamo said that all sections of the country should be happy with whatever position the president deems fit to offer their kinsmen, adding: “after all, the President still has a long way to go with appointments. He has not even filled up to five percent of available positions.” [myad]
